What were the mains debate during Romantic Age ?
Innocence VS Experience
Freedom VS Repression
Individual VS Social Responsibility
Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France ) 1790
Condemned the Revolution for transforming historical evolution and tradition into a ‘blank page’
Thomas Paine (Rights of Man) 1791
It’s an answer to Burke’s novel. This book stated that a revolution is justified when a government doesn’t defend the natural rights of its people.
William Godwin (An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ) 1793
He defended a fairer distribution of wealth to remove poverty
Two Scottish Poets
Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Pre-Romantic poetry
William Blake (1757 - 1827) In (Visions of The Daughters of Albion (1793), Blake criticises the subordination women a nd advocates free sexuality
The first generation of Romantic poets : the cult of nature
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
The second generation of Romantic poets: the poet as rebel
John Clare (1793 - 1864) George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
The Gothic Novel
Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
She gently satirises greed, hypocrisy, complacency, selfishness, and always ranks goodness and love above social status and money
Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
His novels are historical, mostly set in the past of Scotland during periods of turmoil and war, and show how people are influenced by the political events of the time.